MEDIA — The Media Theatre, Delaware County’s only professional music-theater company, earned 12 Broadway World Awards for “Best of Philadelphia Theatre 2013,” including Best Theatre Company, an honor it also achieved in 2012. Ten of the awards went to Artistic Director Jesse Cline’s critically acclaimed revival of the legendary musical, “Mame,” which starred Broadway’s Andrea McArdle. Both Cline, for his direction, and McArdle, for her performance, won in their categories. The two other awards, in technical categories, went to the theater’s recent production of “Monty Python’s Spamalot.”

All Broadway Series musicals at the Media Theatre are produced by Media Music Theatre Company (MMTC), a nonprofit music professional music-theater organization celebrating 20 years of musicals and children’s programming. Its educational component has grown exponentially during the past decade and now includes 10 weeks of summer camp, plus several levels of acting classes for children, teens, and adults.

Nominations were announced worldwide in early December by Broadway World, the esteemed online theatrical media outlet, which gives an up-to-date daily journal of the latest theatrical productions from Broadway to London’s West End. The eligibility period was from Oct. 1, 2012 to end of September 2013. Voting was open to the theater community and members of the general public last December. The Media Theatre was nominated alongside almost every major theatre in Philadelphia, including the Walnut Street Theatre.

The Media Theatre won in the following categories for Best of Philadelphia Theatre 2013:

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Best Theatre Company (second consecutive year), Best Musical (“Mame”), Best Director of a Musical (Jesse Cline, “Mame”), Best Ensemble of A Musical (“Mame”), Best Music Direction (Tom Fosnocht, “Mame”), Best Actress in a Musical (Andrea McArdle, “Mame”), Best Supporting Actor in a Musical (Kelly Briggs, “Mame”), Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (Lea Delaria, “Mame”), Best Costumes (Nikki Moody, “Mame”), Best Choreography (Dann Dunn, “Mame”), Best Lighting Design (Troy Martin O’Shia, “Spamalot”), and Best Sound Design (Carl Park, “Spamalot”).